Thematic Bible: Divisions
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Babylon » Empire of » Divisions
Then he went out from the country of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this country where you now live.
The king of Assyria brought foreigners from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.
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The king of Egypt did not march out from his land again, for the king of Babylon conquered all the territory that the king of Egypt had formerly controlled between the Brook of Egypt and the Euphrates River.
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He said, "You will no longer celebrate, oppressed virgin daughter Sidon! Get up, travel to Cyprus, but you will find no relief there." Look at the land of the Chaldeans, these people who have lost their identity! The Assyrians have made it a home for wild animals. They erected their siege towers, demolished its fortresses, and turned it into a heap of ruins.
King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
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Divisions » Weaken
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
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I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.
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But Jesus, realizing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and a divided household falls.
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Divisions » Condemned in the church
For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
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For members of Chloe's household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you. Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ." Is Christ divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?
Divisions » Are contrary to the » Unity of Christ
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.
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Is Christ divided? Paul wasn't crucified for you, was he? Or were you in fact baptized in the name of Paul?
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Divisions » Unbecoming in the church
but our presentable members do not need this. Instead, God has blended together the body, giving greater honor to the lesser member, so that there may be no division in the body, but the members may have mutual concern for one another.
Divisions » Are contrary to the » Spirit of the primitive church
If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
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Divisions » Forbidden in the church
I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree together, to end your divisions, and to be united by the same mind and purpose.
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Divisions » Are proof of a carnal spirit
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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Divisions » Are contrary to the » Desire of Christ
that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me. The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one -- I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
Divisions » Evil of, illustrated
Now when Jesus realized what they were thinking, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is destroyed, and no town or house divided against itself will stand.
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Divisions » Avoid those who cause
Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!
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Divisions » Are contrary to the » Purpose of Christ
I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.
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Earth » Early » Divisions
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
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Judea, modern » Divisions » Under » Roman
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,
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the Macedonian empire » Predictions respecting » Divisions » Ruled by » Strangers
Shortly after his rise to power, his kingdom will be broken up and distributed toward the four winds of the sky -- but not to his posterity or with the authority he exercised, for his kingdom will be uprooted and distributed to others besides these.
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Time » Of the spirit delay in use of » Divisions
"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
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who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God's purpose at his appointed time.
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He said, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!"
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for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.
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But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
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toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ -- the things in heaven and the things on earth.
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But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.
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